sâmbătă, 14 ianuarie 2017

MOSUL, Iraq -- Iraqi forces have won a string of swift territorial
gains in Mosul in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) after months of slow progress. Government troops retook the
eastern edge of a third bridge in Mosul Saturday and a cluster of
buildings inside Mosul University, according to a senior Iraqi officer
overseeing the operation. Iraqi forces now control the eastern sides of
three of the city’s five bridges that span the Tigris river connecting
Mosul’s east to west. Warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition bombed the
city’s bridges late last year in an effort to isolate ISIS fighters in
the city’s east by disrupting resupply routes. At Mosul University,
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